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A Bankrate analysis of equity-indexed annuities asks, "What exactly are these purported no-lose investments? Who's most likely to benefit by acquiring them? And what are the brokers not telling you during the free introductory dinner they often use to ...
2014-08-14 04:03:00
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Before becoming the first woman to win the top prize in mathematics, Maryam Mirzakhani grew up dreaming of becoming a writer.
2014-08-14 05:46:53
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Winners have emerged in the third edition of a Mathematics competition organised by Our Generation Foundation, with a pupil of the Yewa Egbado College, Ilaro, Ogun State, Ogundimu Oluwatosin, clinching the first position. Oluwatosin, a Senior Secondary1 pupil beat Adelowo Adedamola of the Great Grace Science School, Owode Yewa, to the second position, while Denado... [Read More...]
2014-08-14 08:59:43
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Stanford professor Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to earn the Fields Medal, the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The Inquisitr reported on Maryam’s achievement yesterday, explaining that she won the prize for her work on “the ...
2014-08-14 09:30:00
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My colleague Marina Ratner contends in "Making Math Education Even Worse" (op-ed, Aug. 6) that Common Core State Standards don't cover enough topics while unnecessarily complicating otherwise straightforward questions. California standards mandate Algebra ...
2014-08-14 07:41:00
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On Wednesday, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman in 78 years to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, considered the highest honor in mathematics. She was selected for "stunning advances in the theory of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.
2014-08-14 05:38:00
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The über important field of science, mathematics, has bestowed its highest honor on a woman for the first time. The Fields Medal, mathematics’ top honor, was awarded in South Korea to Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian professor, for her work in the field.
2014-08-13 11:03:00
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Ingrid Daubechies, (above) a professor of mathematics at Duke, had a first hand look at the presentation of the prestigious Fields Medal to a woman for the first time.
2014-08-14 10:10:32
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Elle Calderone, Medill News Service WASHINGTON, August 13 (UPI) -- Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, has become the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal for her contributions in mathematics Wednesday at the International Congress for Mathematicians in Seoul, South Korea.
2014-08-14 08:48:28
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Before becoming the first woman to win the top prize in mathematics, Maryam Mirzakhani grew up dreaming of becoming a writer. The recipient of the Fields Medal, referred to as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics," was absorbed by novels as a child in Tehran during and after the Iran-Iraq war. She was hooked after he showed her how to add up all the whole numbers from 1 to 100 in seconds, she said in ...
2014-08-14 09:47:59
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The search for artistic truth and beauty has led Manjul Bhargava to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory, writes Erica Klarreich For Manjul Bhargava, the counting numbers don't simply line themselves up in a demure row. Instead ...
2014-08-13 10:40:00
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For a few years, I was the resident magician at my son’s birthday parties. That stopped when the kids realized I was repeating the same three tricks. (Funny how you can’t pull wool over the average four year-old’s eyes). Still, I always thought one ...
2014-08-14 12:11:00
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Before becoming the first woman to win the top prize in mathematics, Maryam Mirzakhani grew up dreaming of becoming a writer.
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